"Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life."

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Source : Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

Maeve Binchy

#Real Quotes #Writing Quotes #Talking Quotes

“I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.”
“The same things that we hurray and support in other places, like people like Nelson Mandela, our prisoners were doing the same thing, and they were captured and convicted of the same things. And we should remember them and treat them like the heroes they are.”
“Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile”
“Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.”
“Happiness is where you start from rather than where you go. God, I sound like Yoda.”
“A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.”
“There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.”
“Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth.”

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